[laughter] robert penn warren, and one of those so portable lines from his book called legacy of the civil war stops for a breath of one point and he civil war draws us as an oracle. darkly unrevealed unpretentious of personnel as well as national fate. now that is a mouthful. but there is an event, a turning point in american history that may indeed be our oracle, the place we go for wisdom, the place to go to ask questions about who we are. the place to go because we always seem to be still fighting over his legacy that is probably the civil war. notice where that oracle lives, but what it is. whether it is in a text from a favorite text from a place, monument, memorial, still not, shall memorial in austin is anyone's choice. but it is that events in some ways that we go back to. the james baldwin, i had a great time reading this book apart because you don't get to do this very often. i just read about the writers would always wanted to write about. quoting them commies never epigraphs, just using them for years. so finally i decided i was going to write about them and see what sha